There are 1825 Poems about Social Commentaries

Bible Defense of Slavery
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Lines
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Watching dan-
-cers on skates
By Lorine Niedecker

"'kitty'. sixteen,5'1",white,prostitute"
By E. E. Cummings

"I am the last . . ."
By Charles Simic

$2.50
By Kenneth Fearing

“After Experience Taught Me ...”
By W. D. Snodgrass

“Do Not Embrace Your Mind’s New Negro Friend”
By William Meredith

“I never seen such days as this”
By Sholeh Wolpé

“No, Master, Never!”
By Joshua McCarter Simpson

“Que Sera Sera”
By A. Van Jordan

 Take Me Out to the Go-Go
By Thomas Sayers Ellis

 The Gift Outright
By Robert Frost

1492
By Emma Lazarus

1866
By Henry Timrod

1914 II. Safety
By Rupert Brooke

1914 IV. The Dead
By Rupert Brooke

1926
By Weldon Kees

1932
By Frederick Morgan

1941
By Ruth Stone

1977: Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer
By June Jordan

1994
By Lucille Clifton

2212 West Flower Street
By Michael Collier

23
By Jane Miller

28
By Jane Miller

40 Days
By Tom Clark

50-50
By Langston Hughes

from “The Octoroon”
By Albery Allson Whitman

The Common Women Poems, II. Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80
By Judy Grahn

The Common Women Poems, III. Nadine, resting on her neighbor’s stoop
By Judy Grahn

Deerfield:1703
By Charles Reznikoff

From Homage to Sextus Propertius
By Ezra Pound

Slave Sale: New Orleans
By Charles Reznikoff

Song of Myself: 35
By Walt Whitman

Song of Myself: 36
By Walt Whitman

VII Mon. September [1742] hath xxx days.
By Stephen C. Foster

XII Mon. February [1746] hath xxviii days.
By Benjamin Franklin

A Black Man Talks of Reaping
By Arna Bontemps

A Burnt Ship
By John Donne

A Contract. (For the Destruction and Rebuilding of Paterson
By Amiri Baraka

A Crowded Trolley Car
By Elinor Wylie

A Day on the Big Branch
By Howard Nemerov

A Description of the Morning
By Jonathan Swift

A Dialogue between Old England and New
By Anne Bradstreet

A Double Standard
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
By Hugh MacDiarmid

A Fable
By Etheridge Knight

A Farmer Remembers Lincoln
By Witter Bynner

A Felicitous Life
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Gallup Swill-Hole; Or, Cantina Blues
By Clarence Major

A Hanging Screen
By Michael Anania

A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails
By Nikki Giovanni

A History of Sexual Preference
By Robin Becker

A Home
By Sarah C. Woolsey

A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa
By Richard Crashaw

A Lame Begger
By John Donne

A Late History
By Weldon Kees

A Leak in the Dike
By Phoebe Cary

A Lot
By Scott Cairns

A Mad Fight Song for William S. Carpenter, 1966
By James Wright

A Man in Blue
By James Schuyler

A Map to the Next World
By Joy Harjo

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
By Walt Whitman

A Message from the Wanderer
By William E. Stafford

A Motor
By Marvin Bell

A Negro Love Song
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

A New Story
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

A New York Child’s Garden of Verses
By Franklin Pierce Adams

A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard’s Shack
By James Wright

A Pathological Case in Pliny
By John Logan

A Pedestrian
By Amit Majmudar

A Pict Song
By Rudyard Kipling

A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters
By June Jordan

A Poem Beginning with a Line from Pindar
By Robert Duncan

A Poem for the Cruel Majority
By Jerome Rothenberg

A Poem on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
By Nikki Giovanni

A Poem, on the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant-Maid
By Elizabeth Hands

A Political Prisoner
By Dannie Abse

A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Pretty Woman
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

A Second Train Song for Gary
By Jack Spicer

A Short Lexicon of Torture in the Eighties
By Edward Hirsch

A Shropshire Lad I: From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
By A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad XXXV: On the idle hill of summer
By A. E. Housman

A Side Street
By Louis Untermeyer

A Sister on the Tracks
By Donald Hall

A Song for Soweto
By June Jordan

A Song: “Men of England”
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Step Away from Them
By Frank O'Hara

A Suckling Pig
By Chase Twichell

A Sum of Destructions
By Theodore Weiss

A Supermarket in California
By Allen Ginsberg

A Tapestry for Bayeux
By George Starbuck

A Tenth Anniversary Photograph, 1952
By Miller Williams

A Thousand Words
By Daryl Hine

A Toccata of Galuppi's
By Robert Browning

A Treatise on Poetry: IV Natura
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Twenty-fourth Poem about Horses
By John Peck

A Valentine for Ben Franklin Who Drives a Truck in California
By Diane Wakoski

A Wasp Woman Visits a Black Junkie in Prison
By Etheridge Knight

A Way to Make a Living
By James Wright

A Winter Daybreak above Vence
By James Wright

A Winter Night
By Robert Burns

A Woman Speaks
By Audre Lorde

AAA Vacation Guide
By Ernest Hilbert

Abandoned Farmhouse
By Ted Kooser

Above the City
By James Laughlin

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
By Vachel Lindsay

Absalom and Achitophel
By John Dryden

Absalom and Achitophel: The Second Part
By John Dryden

Addiction
By A. F. Moritz

Adult
By Ray Gonzalez

Advent 1966
By Denise Levertov

Advertisement
By Wisława Szymborska

Advice to a Prophet
By Richard Wilbur

Affekt Funereal / Affekt Jamboree
By Rodrigo Toscano

Africadian Petition (1783)
By George Elliott Clarke

After Su Tung P'o
By Heather McHugh

After the Industrial Revolution, All Things Happen at Once
By Robert Bly

After the Wilderness
By Andrew Hudgins

After working sixty hours again for what reason
By Bob Hicok

Afterimages
By Audre Lorde

Ah, Silly Pug, wert thou so Sore Afraid
By Elizabeth I

Air and Angels
By John Donne

Al Croom
By Walter McDonald

Alameda Street
By Douglas Kearney

Alexander's Feast
By John Dryden

All Afternoon
By Charles Tomlinson

All Souls
By Michael Collier

All the Dead Soldiers
By Thomas McGrath

All the Women Caught in Flaring Light
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Always unsuitable
By Marge Piercy

America
By Tony Hoagland

America
By Claude McKay

America
By Allen Ginsberg

America
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

America Politica Historia, in Spontaneity
By Gregory Corso

America Remembers
By Paul Engle

from America, America
By Saadi Youssef

America: A Prophecy
By William Blake

American Future
By Peter Bethanis

American History
By Michael S. Harper

American Income
By Afaa Michael Weaver

American Names
By Stephen Vincent Benét

American Roots: Moral Associations
By Primus St. John

Amoretti LXXIV: Most Happy Letters
By Edmund Spenser

An “If” for Girls
By Elizabeth Lincoln Otis

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
By Jupiter Hammon

An African Elegy
By Robert Duncan

An American Tale of Sex and Death
By Kevin Stein

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Answer
By Zbigniew Herbert

An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England
By Geoffrey Hill

An Appeal to Women
By Sarah Louisa Forten

An Arbor
By Linda Gregerson

An Emeritus Addresses the School
By John Ciardi

An Essay on Man: Epistle I
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man: Epistle II
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man: Epistle III
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man: Epistle IV
By Alexander Pope

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland
By Andrew Marvell

An Immigrant Woman
By Anne Winters

An Inscription
By Ambrose Bierce

An Interview
By Oskar Pastior

An Urban Convalescence
By James Merrill

An Xmas Murder
By Alfred Corn

Anasazi, Ancient Enemies
By John Peck

Anchorage
By Joy Harjo

Ancient History
By Siegfried Sassoon

Angels Grieving over the Dead Christ
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Anne Rutledge
By Edgar Lee Masters

Anniversaries
By Thomas McGrath

Anthem for Doomed Youth
By Wilfred Owen

Anthology of Rapture
By James Scully

Ants on the Melon
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

ANWR
By Sherwin Bitsui

Aphrodite Metropolis (1)
By Kenneth Fearing

Aphrodite Metropolis (2)
By Kenneth Fearing

Apollo
By Elizabeth Alexander

Apologies to All the People in Lebanon
By June Jordan

Apparition of the Exile
By Bruce Weigl

Application for a Grant
By Anthony Hecht

April 5, 1968
By Alan Williamson

Armistice
By Sophie Jewett

Arms and the Boy
By Wilfred Owen

Art vs. Trade
By James Weldon Johnson

Artificer
By Czeslaw Milosz

as i fly over this time
By Thulani Davis

As My Life is a Dream
By Chungmi Kim

Aside
By Karl Shapiro

Asked to Recall a Moment of Pure Happiness
By Mary Kinzie

Asking About You
By Eloise Klein Healy

Aspecta Medusa (for a Drawing)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Aspects of Robinson
By Weldon Kees

Assault to Abjury
By Raymond McDaniel

At a VA Hospital in the Middle of the United States of America: An Act in a Play
By Etheridge Knight

At the Bomb Testing Site
By William E. Stafford

At the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic
By Gail Mazur

At the Executed Murderer’s Grave
By James Wright

At the Grave of My Guardian Angel: St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans
By Larry Levis

At the Movie: Virginia, 1956
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border
By William E. Stafford

At the Vietnam Memorial
By George Bilgere

At This Precise Moment of History
By Thomas James Merton

Attempted Assassination of the Queen
By William McGonagall

Aubade
By Edith Sitwell

Aubade-Harlem
By Thomas James Merton

Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake

Aunt Helen
By T. S. Eliot

Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Autobiography
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Away to Canada
By Joshua McCarter Simpson

“Himself let him unknown contain”
By Tom Clark

“More Light! More Light!”
By Anthony Hecht

“Teach Us to Number Our Days”
By Rita Dove

“The female seer will burn upon this pyre”
By Elizabeth Alexander

“The Secretary of Liquor”
By Mark Rudman

“What Do Women Want?”
By Kim Addonizio

‘Thrush’
By George Seferis

Baby Villon
By Philip Levine

Babylon Revisited
By Amiri Baraka

Backdrop addresses cowboy
By Margaret Atwood

backstage drama
By Thulani Davis

Baldwin
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Ballad of a Hanged Man
By George Elliott Clarke

Ballad of Birmingham
By Dudley Randall

Ballad of the Dream That Was Not Dreamed
By A. M. Klein

Ballad of the Salvation Army
By Kenneth Fearing

Banneker
By Rita Dove

Barbara Frietchie
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Barter
By Sara Teasdale

Bartow Black
By Timothy Thomas Fortune

Baseball
By Gail Mazur

Bat Cave
By Eleanor Wilner

Battle Hymn of the Republic
By Julia Ward Howe

Battle of Brunanburh
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Battlefield
By Mark Turcotte

Beautiful Black Men
By Nikki Giovanni

Beautiful Wreckage
By W.D. Ehrhart

Before the Rain
By Lianne Spidel

Beginnings
By Jeffrey Greene

Bel Canto
By Kenneth Koch

Belief
By Josephine Miles

Belleau Wood
By Paul Engle

Belly Dancer
By Diane Wakoski

Belly good
By Marge Piercy

Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City
By Jay Wright

Benjamin Banneker Sends His “Almanac” to Thomas Jefferson
By Jay Wright

Beowulf (modern English translation)
By Anonymous

Beowulf (Old English version)
By Anonymous

Bernal Hill
By Randall Mann

Beside the Broad Dordogne
By Alan Feldman

Between Assasinations
By Alan Shapiro

Between the Wars
By Robert Hass

Beyond Words
By Kevin Young

Bible Study: 71 B.C.E.
By Sharon Olds

Big City
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Big City Speech
By W. S. Di Piero

Billie Holiday
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Black Boys Play the Classics
By Toi Derricotte

Black Mare
By Lynda Hull

Blood
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Blue
By Chris Abani

Blue
By Carl Phillips

Blue Juniata
By Malcolm Cowley

Blue Moon
By W. S. Di Piero

Blue Springs
By C. Dale Young

Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Booker T. and W.E.B.
By Dudley Randall

Boston Year
By Elizabeth Alexander

Bottles in the Bombed City
By Les Murray

Box of Cigars
By Gerald Stern

Boy Breaking Glass
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Branch Library
By Edward Hirsch

Brass Spittoons
By Langston Hughes

Break of Day in the Trenches
By Isaac Rosenberg

from Briggflatts
By Basil Bunting

Bright Leaf
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Bronzes
By Carl Sandburg

Brother and Sister
By George Eliot

Brothers-American Drama
By James Weldon Johnson

Buffalo Bill 's
By E. E. Cummings

Buick
By Karl Shapiro

Busman's Honeymoon
By A. F. Moritz

Butchering Crabs
By Henry Carlile

By the Waters of Babylon
By Emma Lazarus

Cadillac Moon
By Kevin Young

Cameo Appearance
By Charles Simic

Camouflage
By Henry Carlile

Camouflaging the Chimera
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Campo dei Fiori
By Czeslaw Milosz

Canned Food Drive
By Kathleen Lynch

Capriccio of Roman Ruins
By A. F. Moritz

Captain Carpenter
By John Crowe Ransom

Captivity
By Louise Erdrich

Carentan O Carentan
By Louis Simpson

Carolina Journal
By Nicole Pekarske

Carrie Leigh’s Hugh Hefner Haikus
By Lynn Crosbie

Casualty
By Seamus Heaney

Catalogue Raisonné of My Refrigerator Door
By George Starbuck

Cathedral
By Terence Winch

Cavalier Tunes: Boot and Saddle
By Robert Browning

Cavalier Tunes: Give a Rouse
By Robert Browning

Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along
By Robert Browning

Champs d’Honneur
By Ernest M. Hemingway

Changing What We Mean
By Eloise Klein Healy

Changing Woman
By Annie Finch

Channel Firing
By Thomas Hardy

Chant
By Tom Sleigh

Character of the Happy Warrior
By William Wordsworth

Charles Meryon
By Christopher Middleton

Charles Sumner
By Charlotte L. Forten Grimké

Chatty Cathy Villanelle
By David Trinidad

Chicago
By Carl Sandburg

Chicago
By Paul Engle

Chicago and December
By W. S. Di Piero

Chicago’s Congo
By Frank Marshall Davis

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Fourth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Childhood
By Margaret Walker

Chinoisserie
By Lynn Emanuel

Chomei at Toyama
By Basil Bunting

Choose
By Carl Sandburg

Choosing A Profession
By Mary Lamb

Christ Among the Moneychangers, 1929
By William Logan

Christian Virtues
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Christmas Away from Home
By Jane Kenyon

Cities
By H. D.

City Elegies
By Robert Pinsky

City Without a Name
By Czeslaw Milosz

Clear-seeing
By Edgar Bowers

Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
By Kenneth Rexroth

Clothes
By Edgar Bowers

Cloudy Day
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Coal
By Audre Lorde

Cock
By Albert Goldbarth

Cold Calls: War Music, Continued
By Christopher Logue

Color in American History: An Essay
By Tom Disch

Come Up from the Fields Father
By Walt Whitman

Come with Me
By Robert Bly

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
By William Wordsworth

Concord Hymn
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confession
By Reginald Gibbons

Confidential
By Rae Armantrout

Conscription Camp
By Karl Shapiro

Consecration
By Susan Stewart

from constant change figures
By Lyn Hejinian

Contentment
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Cool Pastoral on Bloor Street
By John Reibetanz

Cool Tombs
By Carl Sandburg

CORIKOS
By Richard Aldington

Count Gismond—Aix in Provence
By Robert Browning

Cousin Nancy
By T. S. Eliot

Coyote, with Mange
By Mark Wunderlich

Cozy Apologia
By Rita Dove

Crash
By Elizabeth Alexander

Crepuscule with Muriel
By Marilyn Hacker

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
By Walt Whitman

Crossroads
By Mary Barnard

Crying in Front of a Man
By Kate Gale

Cultural Stakes; or, How To Learn English as a Second Language
By Kevin A. González

Daffodils
By Alicia Ostriker

Daily Bread
By John Reibetanz

Danny
By J. M. Synge

Danny Deever
By Rudyard Kipling

Day and Night in Virginia and Boston
By Anne Winters

Day Job and Night Job
By Andrew Hudgins

Day Room
By Tom Sleigh

Days of 1908
By C. P. Cavafy

De Linin’ ub De Hymns
By Daniel Webster Davis

Dead Man’s Dump
By Isaac Rosenberg

Dear Mr. Fanelli,
By Charles Bernstein

Deathfugue
By Paul Celan

Debridement
By Michael S. Harper

Debtor’s Prison Road
By Heather McHugh

Decline and Fall
By John Frederick Nims

Dedication
By Czeslaw Milosz

Deed
By Josephine Miles

Deep South
By Thomas McGrath

Defense Mechanism
By Calvin Thomas

Definition of the Frontiers
By Archibald MacLeish

Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
By Richard F. Hugo

Dejection
By David Baker

Deliberate
By Amy Uyematsu

Depression
By Charles Reznikoff

Depression Glass
By Ted Kooser

Der Gilgul (The Possessed)
By Jerome Rothenberg

Descriptive Jottings of London
By William McGonagall

Despotisms
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Detroit, Tomorrow
By Philip Levine

Digging in a Footlocker
By Walter McDonald

Diorama
By Atsuro Riley

Dirge
By Kenneth Fearing

Disappointments of the Apocalypse
By Mary Karr

Discrimination
By Kenneth Rexroth

Divine Epigrams: On the Baptized Ethiopian
By Richard Crashaw

Doña Josefina Counsels Doña Concepción Before Entering Sears
By Maurice Kilwein Guevara

Doctor Frolic
By Robert Pinsky

Dog
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Domestic Violence
By Eavan Boland

Don Juan: Canto the Eighth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Don Juan: Canto the Eleventh
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Don Juan: Canto the Fourth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Don Juan: Canto the Twelfth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Done
By Michelle Boisseau

Done is a Battle
By William Dunbar

Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League
By Joseph Seamon Cotter

Dr. Joseph Goebbels (22 April 1945)
By W. D. Snodgrass

Dragonflies Mating
By Robert Hass

Drake in the Southern Sea
By Ernesto Cardenal

Dreamer
By Primus St. John

Dreamers
By Siegfried Sassoon

Dreams
By Nikki Giovanni

Drill
By Michael Collier

Driving through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombings
By Robert Bly

Driving West in 1970
By Robert Bly

Dulce et Decorum Est
By Wilfred Owen

Duns Scotus's Oxford
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Dupont’s Round Fight (November, 1861)
By Herman Melville

Durban, South Africa—Some Notations of Value
By Chris Abani

During the War
By Philip Levine

Dust to Dust
By David Baker

Eagle Plain
By Robert Francis

Early Cinema
By Elizabeth Alexander

Early Morning in Milwaukee
By John Koethe

Early Morning Prompts for Evening Takes Or, Roll ’em!
By Rodrigo Toscano

East of New Haven
By Carolyn M. Rodgers

East of the Library, Across from the Odd Fellows Building
By August Kleinzahler

Easter Week
By Joyce Kilmer

Easter, 1916
By William Butler Yeats

Eclogue the Second: HASSAN; or, the Camel-driver.
By William Collins

Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary
By Kevin Young

Eden, Then and Now
By Ruth Stone

Edison in Love
By Robin Ekiss

Edwardian Christmas
By John Fuller

Eighth Air Force
By Randall Jarrell

Elegy for a Soldier
By Marilyn Hacker

Elegy of Fortinbras
By Zbigniew Herbert

Elena
By Irving Feldman

Eliza Harris
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Ellen West
By Frank Bidart

Ellis Island
By Peter Balakian

Emily Hardcastle, Spinster
By John Crowe Ransom

Empire of Dreams
By Charles Simic

Empty Pitchforks
By Thomas Lux

En la Calle San Sebastián
By Martín Espada

Encounter
By Thomas McGrath

England in 1819
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Enslaved
By Claude McKay

Epilogue
By Robert Browning

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle II: To a Lady on the Characters of Women
By Alexander Pope

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV
By Alexander Pope

Epithalament
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Epithalamion
By David Jones

Eschatology of the Lexicon
By J. Allyn Rosser

Essay on Psychiatrists
By Robert Pinsky

Estrangement in Athens
By Brian Culhane

Etching of the Plague Years
By Mary Karr

Eternity
By Tom Clark

Ethnogenesis
By Henry Timrod

Euphorias
By Philip Appleman

Europe: A Prophecy
By William Blake

Eve of St. Agony or The Middleclass Was Sitting on Its Fat
By Kenneth Patchen

Eve's Design
By Moira Linehan

Evening News II
By David Ferry

Everyone Has a House
By Kate Gale

Everything Is Free
By George Elliott Clarke

Everything’s a Fake
By Fanny Howe

Ex-Basketball Player
By John Updike

Ex-Embassy
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Exile
By George Elliott Clarke

Exiles
By C. P. Cavafy

Eye on the Scarecrow
By Nathaniel Mackey

Fabergé's Egg
By Elizabeth Spires

Fable
By Tom Sleigh

Fable for a War
By Thomas James Merton

Fabrication of Ancestors
By Alan Dugan

Facing It
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
By James Tate

Falling From Us, Vanishings
By Alan Williamson

Fallout
By David Bottoms

Fame is a bee. (1788)
By Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food (1702)
By Emily Dickinson

Family History
By Irving Feldman

Fanny
By Carolyn Kizer

Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
By John Ashbery

Fiduciary
By Randall Mann

Figures in the Carpets
By David Schloss

fire
By Nick Flynn

First Fire
By Camille T. Dungy

First Grade Homework
By D. Nurkse

First Song
By Miguel Hernández

Five Poems From "Helen: A Revision"
By Jack Spicer

Five Visions of Captain Cook
By Kenneth Slessor

Flesh of John Brown's Flesh: 2 December 1859
By Geoffrey Brock

Flounder
By Natasha Trethewey

Flying Deeper into the Century
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Fog
By Carl Sandburg

Foodcourt
By Tony Hoagland

For 1939
By Paul Engle

For a War Memorial
By G. K. Chesterton

For a' That and a' That
By Robert Burns

For Freckle-Faced Gerald
By Etheridge Knight

For Laurel and Hardy on My Workroom Wall
By David Wagoner

For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers

For Malcolm X
By Margaret Walker

For Malcolm, A Year After
By Etheridge Knight

For My Daughter
By Antonella Anedda

For My People
By Margaret Walker

For Pharish Pinckney, Bindle-Stiff During the Depression
By Dudley Randall

For the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1997
By Fleda Brown

For the Taking
By Linda Gregerson

For the young who want to
By Marge Piercy

For Virginia Chavez
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

For You O Democracy
By Walt Whitman

Foredoom
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

Formerly Communist Love Sonnet
By Connie Deanovich

Foster Care
By Terry Wolverton

from Four Good Things
By James McMichael

France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Frederick Douglass
By Robert E. Hayden

Freely Espousing
By James Schuyler

From a Rooftop
By Timothy Steele

From Her Notes
By Nomi Stone

From Lines to William Simson
By Robert Burns

From Mythology
By Zbigniew Herbert

From the Dressing-Room
By Medbh McGuckian

From the Headland at Cumae
By John Peck

From Violence to Peace
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fundamentalism
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Fundamentals of Esperanto
By Srikanth Reddy

Funeral Music
By Geoffrey Hill

Gairmscoile
By Hugh MacDiarmid

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
By Vachel Lindsay

George & Rue: Pure, Virtuous Killers
By George Elliott Clarke

Gerontion
By T. S. Eliot

Gethsemane
By Rudyard Kipling

Ghana Calls
By W. E. B. Du Bois

Ghazal For A Poetess
By Annie Finch

Gitanjali 35
By Rabindranath Tagore

Giving a Manicure
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney

Glow Flesh
By Victor Hernández Cruz

God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

God Bless America
By John Fuller

Godolphin Horne, Who was Cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
By Hilaire Belloc

Golden Age
By Timothy Steele

Good-Bye
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gospel
By Fleda Brown

Government
By Carl Sandburg

Graceland
By Carl Sandburg

Grafik
By Juan Felipe Herrera

Grand Central, Track 23
By Elizabeth Skurnick

Grandfather
By Michael S. Harper

Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country
By Lola Haskins

Granny
By James Whitcomb Riley

Grass
By Carl Sandburg

Greek
By T.R. Hummer

Gunga Din
By Rudyard Kipling

Guysborough Road Church
By George Elliott Clarke

Gwendolyn Brooks
By Haki Madhubuti

Gwine to Run All Night, or De Camptown Races
By Stephen C. Foster

Hail
By Mary Szybist

Half Circle
By Ralph Angel

Hands
By Robinson Jeffers

Hanging in Egypt with Breyten Breytenbach
By Chris Abani

Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
By Etheridge Knight

Hard-time blues
By William Waring Cuney

Harlem
By Langston Hughes

Harlem Shadows
By Claude McKay

Harlem Sweeties
By Langston Hughes

Harp Song of the Dane Women
By Rudyard Kipling

Harrison Street Court
By Carl Sandburg

Having My Cards Read
By W. S. Di Piero

He Imagined the Gorgeous Pattern of the New Skin and Settled for America
By Primus St. John

He Thinks of His Children
By Hittan of Tayyi

Heart’s Needle
By W. D. Snodgrass

Heaven
By Cathy Song

Helen
By George Seferis

Hellas: Chorus
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hello, Willie Shoemaker
By Charles Bukowski

Hendecasyllables on Catullus #33
By Bernadette Mayer

Her Life Runs Like a Red Silk Flag
By Bruce Weigl

Herbert White
By Frank Bidart

Here Where Coltrane Is
By Michael S. Harper

Hidden Harvest
By Rodrigo Toscano

High Noon at Los Alamos
By Eleanor Wilner

History
By Babette Deutsch

History Lesson
By Natasha Trethewey

History Lessons
By Sidney Wade

Holy Cussing
By Robert Morgan

Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
By William Blake

Holy Thursday: Is this a holy thing to see
By William Blake

Homage to Buck Cline
By David Bottoms

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
By John Berryman

Home Federal
By Rae Armantrout

Homework
By Allen Ginsberg

Homo Will Not Inherit
By Mark Doty

Honey Dripper
By Clarence Major

Hooded Night
By Robinson Jeffers

Hotel François 1^er
By Gertrude Stein

How Evolution Came to Indiana
By Philip Appleman

How I Discovered Poetry
By Marilyn Nelson

How It Was
By Czeslaw Milosz

How Things Work
By Gary Soto

How to Enter a Big City
By Thomas James Merton

How to get RICHES
By Benjamin Franklin

How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
By Sherman Alexie

How We Heard the Name
By Alan Dugan

How We Made a New Art on Old Ground
By Eavan Boland

Howl
By Allen Ginsberg

Humanities Lecture
By William E. Stafford

Humanity i love you
By E. E. Cummings

Hymn of Not Much Praise for New York City
By Thomas James Merton

Hymn to Life
By James Schuyler

Hymn to the Comb-Over
By Wesley McNair

Hyperion
By John Keats

Hypothetical Antipodes, Judgment
By Philip Jenks

Hysteria
By Dionisio D. Martinez

I Am Merely Posing for a Photograph
By Juan Felipe Herrera

I am the People, the Mob
By Carl Sandburg

I Am the Woman
By William Vaughn Moody

I Am Waiting
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I Dreamed that in a City Dark as Paris
By Louis Simpson

I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater
By Mahmoud Darwish

I Knocked My Head against the Wall
By Anna Swir

I Remember Galileo
By Gerald Stern

I Saw a Chapel
By William Blake

I Sit and Sew
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

I Speak to the Girl Some Dim Boy Loves
By Colleen J. McElroy

I the People
By Alice Notley

i wanted to overthrow the government but all i brought down was somebody's wife
By Charles Bukowski

I Wasn’t One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open
By Yehuda Amichai

I Went into the Maverick Bar
By Gary Snyder

I Would Fain Die a Dry Death
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

I’m Over the Moon
By Brenda Shaughnessy

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
By Charles Olson

I, Too
By Langston Hughes

Ice Child
By John Haines

Ice Plant in Bloom
By W. S. Di Piero

Idleness
By Cesare Pavese

If We Must Die
By Claude McKay

Image-Nation 9 (half and half
By Robin Blaser

Imitations of Horace
By Alexander Pope

Immigrants in Our Own Land
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Impossible to Tell
By Robert Pinsky

Impressions of the New Mexico Legislature
By Arthur Sze

Impromptus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

In a Bad House
By Henri Coulette

In a Bar Near Shibuya Station, Tokyo
By Paul Engle

In a London Drawingroom
By George Eliot

In A Row
By Stephen Dobyns

In a Station of the Metro
By Ezra Pound

In A/C with Ghosts
By Kenneth Slessor

In Chandler Country
By Dana Gioia

In Cities, Be Alert
By Annie Finch

In Defiance of Fortune
By Elizabeth I

In Exile
By Emma Lazarus

In Her Absence I Created Her Image
By Mahmoud Darwish

In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH
By Anne Bradstreet

In Houston
By Gail Mazur

In Jerusalem
By Mahmoud Darwish

In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
By June Jordan

In Order To
By Kenneth Patchen

In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659
By Anne Bradstreet

In Sparta
By C. P. Cavafy

In the Absence of Bliss
By Maxine W. Kumin

In the Armpit of the Hill
By Clarence Major

In The Black Rock Tavern
By Judith Slater

In the House of the Latin Professor
By B. H. Fairchild

In the House of Wax
By John Haines

In the Midwest
By Edward Hirsch

In The Summer After “Issue Year” Winter (1873)
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

In the Year Eight Hundred
By Jane Hirshfield

Incandescent War Poem Sonnet
By Bernadette Mayer

Incident
By Amiri Baraka

Indian Names
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Industrial Lace
By Alice Fulton

Innocence and Experience
By Anne Stevenson

Inside the Blues Whale
By Afaa Michael Weaver

Interesting Times
By Mark Jarman

Interior at Petworth: From Turner
By Rosanna Warren

Internal Migration: On Being on Tour
By Alan Dugan

Interview
By Dudley Randall

Interview
By Dorothy Parker

Intimate Letters
By Rosanna Warren

Introductory to Second Edition
By Alfred Islay Walden

Invocation to the Social Muse
By Archibald MacLeish

Iphigenia: Politics
By Thomas James Merton

Iraqi Boy
By Elizabeth Arnold

Isla
By Virgil Suárez

Islanders
By Richard Emil Braun

It Follows
By Ruth Stone

It Is a Living Coral
By William Carlos Williams

It is not to be Thought of
By William Wordsworth

It was a' for our Rightful King
By Robert Burns

It Was Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Itinerary
By James McMichael

Jack
By Carl Sandburg

January 1919
By Christopher Middleton

January 22nd, Missolonghi
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

January, 1795
By Mary Robinson

jasper texas 1998
By Lucille Clifton

Jazz Station
By Michael S. Harper

Jenny
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Jeremiah
By Donald Revell

Jerusalem: England! awake! awake! awake!
By William Blake

Jessie Mitchell’s Mother
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Joe
By Emily Pauline Johnson

from John Brown's Body: "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave"
By Stephen Vincent Benét

from John Brown's Body: "The years ride out from the world like couriers gone to a throne ..."
By Stephen Vincent Benét

from John Brown's Body: Invocation
By Stephen Vincent Benét

John Brown: A Paradox
By Louise Imogen Guiney

John Brown’ s Face
By Kevin Stein

John Sutter
By Yvor Winters

Johnson’s Cabinet Watched by Ants
By Robert Bly

Jottings of New York: A Descriptive Poem
By William McGonagall

Joy in the Woods
By Claude McKay

Judas: A Biography
By George Elliott Clarke

Judith of Bethulia
By John Crowe Ransom

July in Washington
By Robert Lowell

Junk
By Richard Wilbur

Ka Waiapo Lani (Heavenly Showers)
By Lydia Kamakaeha Lili’uokalani

Kind of Blue
By Lynn Powell

King’s Daughters, Home for Unwed Mothers, 1948
By C. D. Wright

Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye
By Gerald Stern

Kitchen Chair Poem #5
By Clarence Major

kitchenette building
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Knucks
By Carl Sandburg

Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

La Ghriba (“The Stranger”) Tells How and Why
By Nomi Stone

Lady Lazarus
By Sylvia Plath

Lambert Hutchins
By Edgar Lee Masters

Land
By Agha Shahid Ali

Last Century
By Wyatt Prunty

Laundry
By Bruce Smith

Lawyer and Child
By James Whitcomb Riley

Leap In The Dark
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Learning from History
By David Ferry

Learning to Love America
By Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

Learning to Read
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Learning to Talk
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Leaving Bartram’s Garden in Southwest Philadelphia
By W. S. Di Piero

Leaving Kansas City
By George Bradley

Lectures to Women on Physical Science
By James Clerk Maxwell

Legacy
By Amiri Baraka

Lepanto
By G. K. Chesterton

from Lessons From Television
By Susan Stewart

Let Me Count the Waves
By Sandra Beasley

Letter For Emily Dickinson
By Annie Finch

Letter from a Distant Land
By Philip Booth

Letter from the Mountains
By James K. Baxter

Letter to Brooks: Spring Garden
By Major Jackson

Letter to Martín Espada
By Doug Anderson

Letter to the Local Police
By June Jordan

Lies and Longing
By Linda Gregg

Life at War
By Denise Levertov

Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
By James Weldon Johnson

Lift Every Voice and Sing
By James Weldon Johnson

Like an Animal
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Like New
By Linda Gregerson

Like Rousseau
By Amiri Baraka

Lime
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Lincoln
By Delmore Schwartz

Lincoln
By Vachel Lindsay

Lincoln, Man of the People
By Edwin Markham

Lines from a Plutocratic Poetaster to a Ditch-digger
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Lines on Locks (or Jail and the Erie Canal)
By John Logan

Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
By Matthew Arnold

Lines Written Near San Francisco
By Louis Simpson

Litany for Dictatorships
By Stephen Vincent Benét

Little Big Man
By Sherman Alexie

Little Brown Baby
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Living
By C. D. Wright

London
By William Blake

London Snow
By Robert Bridges

London, 1802
By William Wordsworth

London’s Summer Morning
By Mary Robinson

Lonely Eagles
By Marilyn Nelson

Long House Valley Poem
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Look to the Future
By Ruth Stone

Looking Forward
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Looking into History
By Richard Wilbur

Lost and Found
By Maxine Chernoff

Lothar’s Wife
By Colleen J. McElroy

Louisiana Purchase
By Charlie Smith

Louse Hunting
By Isaac Rosenberg

Love among the Ruins
By Robert Browning

Love Poem for an Enemy
By Richard Katrovas

Love's Alchemy
By John Donne

Luminous Great Mass
By Peter O’Leary

from Lyrics of the Street
By Julia Ward Howe

from Lyrics of the Street
By Julia Ward Howe

Ma Rainey
By Sterling A. Brown

Mac Flecknoe
By John Dryden

Madam’s Past History
By Langston Hughes

Madrigal in Time of War
By John Frederick Nims

Magda Goebbels (30 April 1945)
By W. D. Snodgrass

Makeup
By Dora Malech

Making Money: Drought Year in Minkler, California
By Gary Soto

Malcolm X, February 1965
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Male Rage Poem
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Manitoba Childe Roland
By Carl Sandburg

Manufacturing
By Alan Shapiro

Manufacturing
By Rae Armantrout

Map
By Atsuro Riley

Margaret Fuller Slack
By Edgar Lee Masters

Market Forecast
By Alexa Selph

Marriage
By Marianne Moore

Marrying the Hangman
By Margaret Atwood

Massachusetts
By Terry Wolverton

Matins
By David Wojahn

Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 2
By Charles Olson

Mayor Harold Washington
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Meditation at Fifty Yards, Moving Target
By Rita Dove

Meditation on Statistical Method
By J. V. Cunningham

Meditations in an Emergency
By Frank O'Hara

Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Medley of the Cut
By John Peck

Mementos, 1
By W. D. Snodgrass

Memorial Day
By Michael Anania

Memorial Day
By Gregory Orr

Memories of West Street and Lepke
By Robert Lowell

Memphis Resurrection
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Men Say Brown
By Henry M. Seiden

Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly

from Mercian Hymns
By Geoffrey Hill

Metropolitan
By John Fuller

Michael: A Pastoral Poem
By William Wordsworth

Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden

Military Mind
By Charlie Smith

Milton: But in the Wine-presses the Human Grapes Sing not nor Dance
By William Blake

Mingus in Diaspora
By William Matthews

Minnesota Fats Describes His Youth
By Elizabeth Alexander

Minor Miracle
By Marilyn Nelson

Minor Poet
By Bill Sweeney

Mississippi
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Mme. Sperides
By Gregory Djanikian

Momus
By Carl Sandburg

Money
By Howard Nemerov

Money
By Reginald Gibbons

Money
By Philip Larkin

Money Won’t Change It (but time will take you on)
By Cornelius Eady

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
By Christina Rossetti

Monologue of a Commercial Fisherman
By Alan Dugan

from Monologues of the Son of Saul
By John Logan

Monuments
By Myra Sklarew

More Females of the Species
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate

Morning News
By Marilyn Hacker

Morning Talk
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Mother and Poet
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Mr. Edwards and the Spider
By Robert Lowell

Mrs. Krikorian
By Sharon Olds

Mugging (I)
By Allen Ginsberg

mulberry fields
By Lucille Clifton

Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh
By Thomas James

My Century
By Alan Feldman

My Country ’Tis of Thee
By W. E. B. Du Bois

my dream about being white
By Lucille Clifton

My God
By Susan Rolston

My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning

from My Life: Reason looks for two, then arranges it from there
By Lyn Hejinian

My Message Left Next to the Phone
By W. S. Di Piero

My Sad Self
By Allen Ginsberg

My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Mythistorema
By George Seferis

Mythology
By Marilyn Hacker

N
By Randall Mann

Nameless Pain
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

Names We Sing in Sleep & Anger
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Narrative: Ali
By Elizabeth Alexander

Natal Command
By Peter Sacks

Native Woman
By A. F. Moritz

Navy Field
By William Meredith

Near Antietam
By Norman Williams

Negation
By George Elliott Clarke

New Folk
By Terrance Hayes

New Nation
By Charles Reznikoff

New Netherland, 1654
By Grace Schulman

New Stanzas for Amazing Grace
By Allen Ginsberg

New York
By Valzhyna Mort

New York American Spell, 2001
By Tom Sleigh

Next Day
By Randall Jarrell

Night Music
By Linda Gregg

Night of Battle
By Yvor Winters

Night Wash
By Anne Winters

Night Without Sleep
By Robinson Jeffers

Nightmare Begins Responsibility
By Michael S. Harper

Nights of 1964—1966: The Old Reliable
By Marilyn Hacker

Nights on Planet Earth
By Campbell McGrath

Nightwatchman's Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

Nikki-Rosa
By Nikki Giovanni

Nina's Blues
By Cornelius Eady

Nineteen-Fourteen: Peace
By Rupert Brooke

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Dead
By Rupert Brooke

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Soldier
By Rupert Brooke

Nineteen-twenty-nine
By William Waring Cuney

No Buyers
By Thomas Hardy

No Classes!
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

No Comfort To Be Had
By Sidney Wade

No Images
By William Waring Cuney

No Moon Floods the Memory of That Night
By Etheridge Knight

No More and No Less
By Mahmoud Darwish

No Prisoners
By Thomas P. Lynch

Noah’s Wife
By Linda Gregerson

Nocturne
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Nocturne Militaire
By Thomas McGrath

Nogi
By Harriet Monroe

Northern Farmer: New Style
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Northern Farmer: Old Style
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Notes for an Elegy
By William Meredith

Notes on the Capitalist Persuasion
By John Haines

Notes on the Steps of the San Diego Bus Depot
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

November, 1806
By William Wordsworth

Now and then
By James Schuyler

Nuremberg
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O Black and Unknown Bards
By James Weldon Johnson

O Captain! My Captain!
By Walt Whitman

O Heart Uncovered
By Joseph Ceravolo

Occupation 1943
By Saadi Youssef

Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

October, 1803
By William Wordsworth

Odd
By Dannie Abse

Ode
By Henry Timrod

Ode for the American Dead in Asia
By Thomas McGrath

Ode For Walt Whitman
By Jack Spicer

Ode on Solitude
By Alexander Pope

Ode on the Facelifting of the "statue" of Liberty
By Edward Dorn

Ode to Big Trend
By Terrance Hayes

Ode to the Midwest
By Kevin Young

Ode, Inscribed to William H. Channing
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

from Odes: 14. Gin the Goodwife Stint
By Basil Bunting

from Odes: 6. What the Chairman Told Tom
By Basil Bunting

Of History and Hope
By Miller Williams

Of Late
By George Starbuck

Of Lincoln
By Cynthia Zarin

Oh Lovely Rock
By Robinson Jeffers

Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster

Ol’ Doc’ Hyar
By James Edwin Campbell

Old Folks at Home
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Ironsides
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old Lem
By Sterling A. Brown

Old People’s Holiday
By Mary Kinzie

On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama
By Gregory Orr

On a Raised Beach
By Hugh MacDiarmid

On Being a Householder
By Alan Dugan

On Being Brought from Africa to America
By Phillis Wheatley

On Broadway
By Claude McKay

On Hearing a Description of a Prairie
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne

On Liberty and Slavery
By George Moses Horton

On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset Behind Me
By John Ciardi

On Mother’s Day
By Grace Paley

On Reading Crowds and Power
By Geoffrey Hill

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
By John Keats

On the Birth of a Son
By Su Tung-Po

On the Civil War on the East Coast of the United States of North America 1860-64
By Alan Dugan

On the Crash of an Airliner at Takeoff
By Calvin Thomas

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
By William Wordsworth

On the Farm
By R. S. Thomas

On the Funeral of Charles the First at Night, in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
By William Lisle Bowles

On the Lawn at the Villa
By Louis Simpson

On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester
By John Milton

On the Loss of Energy (and Other Things)
By June Jordan

On the Loss of the Royal George
By William Cowper

On the Metro
By C. K. Williams

On The Western Front
By Alfred Noyes

On the Yard
By Tom Sleigh

One Angel: Palazzo Arian, at San Raffaele Arcangelo
By Ann Snodgrass

One Girl of Many
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

One Home
By William E. Stafford

from One Hundred Quatrains
By Patrizia Valduga

Opera Bouffe
By Philip Gross

Ophelia's Technicolor G-String: An Urban Mythology
By Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett

Opus
By George Bradley

Original Pain
By George Elliott Clarke

Orophernis
By C. P. Cavafy

Our Fear
By Zbigniew Herbert

Our Sun
By George Seferis

Out of Metropolis
By Lynn Emanuel

Out of Our Hands
By Cathy Song

Out of the Pulver and the Polished Lens
By A. M. Klein

Outbreak
By Donald Revell

Over and Under
By John Brehm

Ovid in the Third Reich
By Geoffrey Hill

Pacific Epitaphs
By Dudley Randall

Parable in Praise of Violence
By Tony Barnstone

Parable of the Hostages
By Louise Glück

Parchment
By Michelle Boisseau

Paris and Helen
By Judy Grahn

Parmi beaucoup de poèmes / Among Many Poems
By Jacques Roubaud

Parsley
By Rita Dove

Paschal
By Robert Pinsky

Passing
By Toi Derricotte

Past-Lives Therapy
By Charles Simic

Pastoral
By William Carlos Williams

Paterson
By Allen Ginsberg

Patterns
By Amy Lowell

Pedestrian
By Thomas Lux

Peggy's Cove
By George Elliott Clarke

Pentecost
By David Wojahn

People
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Perplexity: A Poem
By Elizabeth Hands

Perspectives
By R. S. Thomas

Phases
By Wallace Stevens

Phenomenal Woman
By Maya Angelou

Philadelphia Flowers
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Philomela
By Matthew Arnold

Photograph from September 11
By Wisława Szymborska

Pink Slip at Tool & Dye
By Dave Smith

Place Names
By Thomas James Merton

Planetarium
By Adrienne Rich

Please
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Poem about My Rights
By June Jordan

Poem about People
By Robert Pinsky

Poem Beginning with a Line by Frank Lima
By Lisa Jarnot

Poem For A Lady Whose Voice I Like
By Nikki Giovanni

Poem for Nana
By June Jordan

Poem of Disconnected Parts
By Robert Pinsky

Poem to the Detroit River
By Terry Wolverton

Politics
By William Meredith

Politics of Mop and Sponge
By Kevin Stein

Port of Aerial Embarkation
By John Ciardi

Port Royal
By C. Dale Young

Port-Au-Prince
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Portrait from the Infantry
By Alan Dugan

Portrait of a Poet with a Console TV in Hand
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Post-Traumatic Shock, Newark, New Jersey, 1942
By Peter Balakian

Postfeminism
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Posthumous
By Jean Nordhaus

Poverty
By Jane Taylor

from Powers of Thirteen: 29 [An Old Song]
By John Hollander

Praise
By Stanley Moss

Praise Song for the Day
By Elizabeth Alexander

Prayer
By Alan Dugan

Prayer of a Soldier in France
By Joyce Kilmer

Preludes
By T. S. Eliot

Primer For Blacks
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Prisoner in a Hole
By Sholeh Wolpé

Private and Profane
By Marie Ponsot

Pro Femina
By Carolyn Kizer

Probation
By Averill Curdy

Problems of Translation: Problems of Language
By June Jordan

Prodigy
By Charles Simic

Proem to American Song
By Paul Engle

Project for a Fainting
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Prologue
By Anne Bradstreet

Prothalamion
By David Jones

Protus
By Robert Browning

Proverbs
By Thomas James Merton

Pullman Porter
By Robert W. Service

Pulp Fiction
By David Baker

Quaker Meeting, The Sixties
By Robin Becker

Queens
By J. M. Synge

Question [1]
By Langston Hughes

Quivira
By Ronald Johnson

Race
By Elizabeth Alexander

Railroad Face
By Ray Gonzalez

Range-finding
By Robert Frost

rape
By Patti Smith

Rarefied
By Albert Goldbarth

Reaching Yellow River
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Reading Titus Andronicus In Three Mile Plains, N.S.
By George Elliott Clarke

Ready to Kill
By Carl Sandburg

Reapers
By Jean Toomer

Recessional
By Rudyard Kipling

Red Parade
By David Trinidad

Red String
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Reflections on History in Missouri
By Constance Urdang

Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring (1 April 1945)
By W. D. Snodgrass

Relating to Robinson
By Weldon Kees

Religio Laici
By John Dryden

Remembering an Account Executive
By Alan Dugan

Remembering Frost at Kennedy’s Inauguration
By Linda Pastan

Report from Paradise
By Zbigniew Herbert

Report from the Temple of Confessions in Old Chicano English
By Brenda Cárdenas

Report to Crazy Horse
By William E. Stafford

Requests for Toy Piano
By Tony Hoagland

Requiem for the First Half of Split
By Alice Notley

Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
By Geoffrey Hill

Respublica
By Geoffrey Hill

Retirement
By Henry Timrod

Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate

Revolution
By Anne Waldman

Reward
By Kevin Young

Rhapsody on a Windy Night
By T. S. Eliot

Richard Cory
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Riot
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Robeson at Rutgers
By Elizabeth Alexander

Rock and Hawk
By Robinson Jeffers

Romans Angry about the Inner World
By Robert Bly

Romans in Dorset: A.D. MDCCCXCV
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Roslyn
By Thulani Davis

Royalty
By Lianne Spidel

Ruined Tunnel
By Forrest Gander

Ruins
By Samuel Menashe

Rule Britannia
By James Thomson

Runagate Runagate
By Robert E. Hayden

Russell Market
By Maurya Simon

Rwanda: Where Tears Have No Power
By Haki Madhubuti

Sales
By W. S. Di Piero

Samson Agonistes
By John Milton

Sanctuary
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Sapphics: At the Mohawk-Castle, Canada. To Lieutenant Montgomery
By Thomas Morris

Satire III
By John Donne

Satire IV
By John Donne

Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses VIII: In the Study
By Thomas Hardy

Saul
By Robert Browning

from Saying Grace
By Kevin Young

Scary Movies
By Kim Addonizio

Scattering the March
By D. Nurkse

School
By Jane Miller

Scots Wha Hae
By Robert Burns

Sean Penn Anti-Ode
By Dean Young

Searchers
By D. Nurkse

Seizure
By Lynn Emanuel

Selective Service
By Carolyn Forché

Self Portrait
By Frank Marshall Davis

Self-Inquiry Before the Job Interview
By Gary Soto

September Song
By Geoffrey Hill

September, 1918
By Amy Lowell

Serena I
By Samuel Beckett

seventh heaven
By Patti Smith

Seventh Street
By Jean Toomer

Several Errands
By Brenda Hillman

Shadow Play
By Ralph Angel

Shakespeare
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sharks' Teeth
By Kay Ryan

She Had Some Horses
By Joy Harjo

Sheep
By Judy Grahn

Shell
By Terry Wolverton

Shiloh: A Requiem (April, 1862)
By Herman Melville

Shine, Perishing Republic
By Robinson Jeffers

Shine, Republic
By Robinson Jeffers

Ships that Pass in the Night
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Shirt
By Robert Pinsky

Shiver & You Have Weather
By Matthea Harvey

Shroud of the Gnome
By James Tate

Silent Film
By Kurt Brown

Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman
By William Wordsworth

Simone Weil: The Year of Factory Work (1934-1935)
By Edward Hirsch

Singing School
By Seamus Heaney

Sir Humphrey Gilbert
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Siren Song
By Margaret Atwood

Sisters in Arms
By Audre Lorde

Six Sailors
By Irving Feldman

skinny-dippin’ in the gene pool
By Thulani Davis

Skipper Ireson’s Ride
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Skunk Hour
By Robert Lowell

Slant
By Suji Kwock Kim

Slavery
By Hannah More

Sleep
By Meghan O'Rourke

Slowly: a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman
By Judy Grahn

Small Kingdom
By Samuel Menashe

Smoke
By Philip Levine

Smothered Fires
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

Snake
By Dannie Abse

So they stood
By Samuel Menashe

Sohrab and Rustum
By Matthew Arnold

Soliloquy on an Empty Purse
By Mary Jones

Solitude: An Ode
By Alexander Pope

Solo R&B Vocal Underground
By W. S. Di Piero

Some Are Dead and Some Are Living
By Colleen J. McElroy

Some Assembly Required
By George Bradley

Somebody Else’s Baby
By Mary Jo Salter

Somehow They Got Three Stories Up
By W. S. Di Piero

Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi
By Garrett Hongo

Sometime During Eternity ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Sometimes Never
By Joyce Sutphen

Somewhere to Paris
By Richard Blanco

Song
By Mark Defoe

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates and Honours of his Ancestors
By William Wordsworth

Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman

Song of Napalm
By Bruce Weigl

Song of the Andoumboulou: 60
By Nathaniel Mackey

Song of the Galley-Slaves
By Rudyard Kipling

Song of the Two Crows
By Hayden Carruth

Song: Go and catch a falling star
By John Donne

Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet Reversed
By Rupert Brooke

Sonnet to Vauxhall
By Thomas Hood

Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq.
By William Cowper

Sonnet XCIV: They that have Power to Hurt and will do None
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XVI: To the Lord General Cromwell
By John Milton

Sonnet XVIII: On the Late Massacre in Piemont
By John Milton

Sonnet XXV: Let those who are in Favour with their Stars
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet: I Scarcely Grieve
By Henry Timrod

Sonnets of the Blood
By Allen Tate

Sorrow Home
By Margaret Walker

sorrow song
By Lucille Clifton

Sower
By Bei Dao

Soweto
By Edward Brathwaite

Spain: Anno 1492
By Charles Reznikoff

Spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone
By Bob Hicok

Spree
By Maxine W. Kumin

Spring before a War
By Dudley Randall

Spring Letter
By Carl Dennis

St. Agnes' Eve
By Kenneth Fearing

St. Peter Claver
By Toi Derricotte

Stalin's Library Card
By David Wojahn

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
By Matthew Arnold

Starlings
By W. S. Di Piero

State's Attorney Fallas
By Edgar Lee Masters

Statement with Rhymes
By Weldon Kees

Still I Rise
By Maya Angelou

Stomackes
By Albert Goldbarth

Strange Meeting
By Wilfred Owen

Stranger at the Ashwood Threshold
By Sherod Santos

Stravinsky in L.A.
By Elizabeth Alexander

Street Boy
By J. Allyn Rosser

Street Music
By Elizabeth Akers Allen

Street Musicians
By John Ashbery

Stripped Car
By Chase Twichell

Styx
By Robert Duncan

Submission
By Lynn Crosbie

Suburban Pastoral
By Dave Lucas

Subway Seethe
By J. Allyn Rosser

Subway Wind
By Claude McKay

Success is counted sweetest (112)
By Emily Dickinson

Sugar Cane
By Alfred Corn

Sunday Chimes in the City
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Sunday: New Guinea
By Karl Shapiro

Sunflower Sutra
By Allen Ginsberg

Sunny Prestatyn
By Philip Larkin

Superfly
By Lynn Crosbie

Superhero Pregnant Woman
By Jessy Randall

Survival
By Primus St. John

Swallow the Lake
By Clarence Major

Sweeney Erect
By T. S. Eliot

Sweet Machine
By Mark Doty

Swerve
By Kelle Groom

Swift
By Delmore Schwartz

Swifts
By Gerald Stern

Sympathy
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Taking Notice
By Marilyn Hacker

Tar
By C. K. Williams

Teaching English from an Old Composition Book
By Gary Soto

Temperance Poems
By William Pitt Root

Terminator Too
By Tom Clark

Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
By Diane Wakoski

That Country
By Grace Paley

The 167th Psalm of Elvis
By Tony Barnstone

The Age Demanded
By Ernest M. Hemingway

The Alphabet
By Karl Shapiro

The Amen Stone
By Yehuda Amichai

The Amenities
By Heather McHugh

The American Way
By Gregory Corso

The Answer
By Robinson Jeffers

The Anti-Suffragist
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Anti-Suffragists
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Aphrodisiac
By Arthur Sze

The Apples
By W. S. Di Piero

The Armada
By Anne Winters

The Arsenal at Springfield
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Asians Dying
By W. S. Merwin

The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke

the attack could not be seen by night
By Thulani Davis

The Author of Torah
By Alfred Corn

The Avenues
By David St. John

The Bad Mother
By Susan Griffin

The Bad Old Days
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Ballad of Nat Turner
By Robert E. Hayden

The Ballad of Othello Clemence
By George Elliott Clarke

The Ballad of Reading Gaol
By Oscar Wilde

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
By Delmore Schwartz

The Bard: A Pindaric Ode
By Thomas Gray

The Battle of Omdurman
By William McGonagall

The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
By William McGonagall

The Beggars
By Margaret Widdemer

The Benefactors
By Rudyard Kipling

The Birth of John Henry
By Melvin B. Tolson

The Birth-day
By Mary Robinson

The Blackstone Rangers
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Bloody Sire
By Robinson Jeffers

The Blue-Eyed Precinct Worker
By Henri Coulette

The Boarding
By Denis Johnson

The Bodies
By Elizabeth Spires

The Book of Urizen
By William Blake

The Boston Evening Transcript
By T. S. Eliot

The Brassiere Factory
By Kenneth Koch

The Bridge of Change
By John Logan

from The Bridge: Atlantis
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: Cutty Sark
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: Quaker Hill
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: The Tunnel
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge
By Hart Crane

The Brief Journey West
By Howard Nemerov

The Buffalo Coat
By Thomas McGrath

The Bungalows
By John Ashbery

The Cab Driver Who Ripped Me Off
By Cornelius Eady

The Calm
By John Donne

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
By E. E. Cummings

The Campus on the Hill
By W. D. Snodgrass

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Caveman on the Train
By John Frederick Nims

The Chain Letter (An American Tragedy)
By David Lee

The Chant of the Vultures
By Edwin Markham

The Character of Holland
By Andrew Marvell

The Charge of the Light Brigade
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Chaste Stranger
By James Tate

The Children of the Poor
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
By William Blake

The Circuit Judge
By Edgar Lee Masters

The Circus
By Kenneth Koch

The Cities Inside Us
By Alberto Ríos

The City (1925)
By Carl Rakosi

The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War
By James Doyle

The Cleaving
By Li-Young Lee

The Cloud Confines
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Colonel
By Carolyn Forché

The Coming Woman
By Mary Weston Fordham

The Composer’s Winter Dream
By Norman Dubie

The Confession of St. Jim-Ralph
By Denis Johnson

The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race
By Vachel Lindsay

The Conscientious Objector
By Karl Shapiro

The Cooling Tower
By Amy Clampitt

The County Jail
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

The Cry of the Children
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Curator
By Miller Williams

The Curtain
By Hayden Carruth

The Dance in Jinotega
By Grace Paley

The Dawn
By Federico García Lorca

The Day Before Kindergarten: Taluca, Alabama, 1959
By Thylias Moss

The Day is a Poem
By Robinson Jeffers

The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ
By Ambrose Bierce

The Dead
By Don Paterson

The Death of Allegory
By Billy Collins

The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost

The Debt
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Deodand
By Anthony Hecht

The Depot
By Anne Winters

The Desert of Empire
By Mark Rudman

The Deserted Village
By Oliver Goldsmith

The Desk
By David Bottoms

The Destruction of Sennacherib
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

the difference between a bad poet and a good one is luck
By Charles Bukowski

The Dignity of Ushers
By Al Maginnes

The Dinner
By Gregory Orr

The Dirt-Eaters
By Elizabeth Alexander

The Door (I)
By Robert Creeley

The Doubt of Future Foes
By Elizabeth I

The Dow Is Off
By Norman Williams

The Drowning of Immoral Women
By Herbert Morris

The Dust Covers My Shoes
By Hilda Morley

The Eager Interpreter
By Reginald Gibbons

The Eagle That Is Forgotten
By Vachel Lindsay

from The Emigrants: A Poem
By Charlotte Smith

The Emperor's Dream
By Zbigniew Herbert

The End and the Beginning
By Wisława Szymborska

The End of an Ethnic Dream
By Jay Wright

The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad which Villon Made for Himself and his Comrades, Expecting to be Hanged along with Them
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Erotic Philosophers
By Carolyn Kizer

The Eternal Rebel
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Executive’s Death
By Robert Bly

The Fable About a Nail
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Fact of the Garden
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

The Farm
By David Lee

The Farm on the Great Plains
By William E. Stafford

The Fat Old Couple Whirling Around
By Robert Bly

The Fatal Sisters: An Ode
By Thomas Gray

The Father of My Country
By Diane Wakoski

The Feast of Stephen
By Anthony Hecht

The Feed
By M.L. Smoker

The Final Morbidity of the Interior Embezzler
By Henry Taylor

The Fisherman
By William Butler Yeats

The Flash Reverses Time
By A. Van Jordan

The Flashboat
By Jane Cooper

The Flat-Hunter’s Way
By Franklin Pierce Adams

The Flâneur
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Flight
By Grace Schulman

The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly

The Four Zoas
By William Blake

The French Revolution
By William Blake

The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement
By William Wordsworth

The Friar's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The General Prologue from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The General’s Briefing
By Jane Miller

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The Golden Schlemiel
By Irving Feldman

The Good Wife Taught Her Daughter
By Medbh McGuckian

The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Gospel of Barbecue
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Great Palaces of Versailles
By Rita Dove

The Great Pax Whitie
By Nikki Giovanni

The Great Society
By Robert Bly

The Grey Monk
By William Blake

The Gross Clinic
By Carol Frost

The Guards Came Through
By Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hackney Coachman: Or the Way to Get a Good Fare
By Hannah More

The Hand That Signed the Paper
By Dylan Thomas

The Hanging Man
By Sylvia Plath

The Harbor
By Carl Sandburg

The Harpy
By Robert W. Service

The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats
By John Surowiecki

The Haunted Oak
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Heart of a Woman
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

The Highwayman
By Alfred Noyes

The History of America
By Alicia Ostriker

The History of Jazz
By Kenneth Koch

The Horse
By Philip Levine

The Horses Run Back To Their Stalls
By Linda Gregerson

The Housewife
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Idea of Ancestry
By Etheridge Knight

The Iliad
By Alexander Pope

The Indian
By Elizabeth Kirkham Mathews

The Indifferent
By John Donne

The Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin
By Ann Yearsley

The Israeli Navy
By Marvin Bell

The Ivy Green
By Charles Dickens

The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
By William Meredith

The James Bond Movie
By May Swenson

The Japanese Wife
By Charles Bukowski

The Key to the City
By Anne Winters

The Key to the Kingdom
By Philip Gross

The King and Queen of Hearts
By Charles Lamb

The Kingfishers
By Charles Olson

The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Laboratory
By Robert Browning

The Lady and the Doctor
By Helen Leigh

The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
By Richard F. Hugo

The Lady of the Castle
By John Hollander

from The Lady of the Lake: Boat Song
By Sir Walter Scott

The Lamb
By Linda Gregg

The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Last Attack. To Klaus
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Last Bargain
By Rabindranath Tagore

The Last Laugh
By Wilfred Owen

The Laurel Tree
By Louis Simpson

The Laws of Motion
By Nikki Giovanni

The Lawyers' Ways
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Legend
By Garrett Hongo

The Lesson
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Lights at Carney’s Point
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

The Lights of London
By Louise Imogen Guiney

The Line-Up
By Dudley Randall

The List
By A. F. Moritz

The Little Black Boy
By William Blake

The Little Mariner
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

The Little Match Girl
By William McGonagall

The Little Orphan
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Little Vagabond
By William Blake

The Little Walls Before China
By A. F. Moritz

The Loneliness of the Military Historian
By Margaret Atwood

The Long Trail
By Rudyard Kipling

The Lost Leader
By Robert Browning

The Love Letters of Helen Pitts Douglass
By Michael S. Harper

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot

The Lovers of the Poor
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Lowering
By May Swenson

The Luggage
By Constance Urdang

The Lyric In A Time of War
By Eloise Klein Healy

The Madness of Emperors
By George Bradley

The Man He Killed
By Thomas Hardy

The Man in the Dead Machine
By Donald Hall

The Map
By Gary Soto

The March into Virginia Ending in the First Manassas (July, 1861)
By Herman Melville

The Mayans
By Eleanor Lerman

The Meaning of the Shovel
By Martín Espada

The Measure
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

The Memory of Elena
By Carolyn Forché

The Men
By Pablo Neruda

The Menstrual Hut
By Annie Finch

The Mermaid in the Hospital
By Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

The Militance of a Photograph in the Passbook of a Bantu under Detention
By Michael S. Harper

The Militant Black Poet
By Dudley Randall

The Mill-Race
By Anne Winters

The Minneapolis Poem
By James Wright

The Misanthropist
By James Monroe Whitfield

The Monument and the Shrine
By John Logan

The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants
By Paul Muldoon

The Mother’s Charge
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Murder of William Remington
By Howard Nemerov

The Nail
By C. K. Williams

The Natives of America
By Ann Plato

The Negro Speaks of Rivers
By Langston Hughes

The neighbor
By Marge Piercy

The New Chinese Fiction
By James Tate

The New Colossus
By Emma Lazarus

The New World
By Amiri Baraka

The Nineteenth Century as a Song
By Robert Hass

The Ninth of July
By John Hollander

The Northeast Corridor
By Donald Revell

The Old Cumberland Beggar
By William Wordsworth

The Old Front Gate
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Old Maid
By Sara Teasdale

The Old Maid Factory
By Constance Urdang

The Old Meeting House
By Alfred Noyes

The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.
By Larry Levis

The One I Think of Now
By Wesley McNair

The Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson
By Irene McKinney

The Orange Alert
By Douglas Kearney

The Others
By Michael Ryan

The Paradox
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Pennacesse Leper Colony for Women, Cape Cod: 1922
By Norman Dubie

The People of the Other Village
By Thomas Lux

from The People, Yes
By Carl Sandburg

The Perfect Mother
By Susan Griffin

The Performance
By James L. Dickey

The Pilot in the Jungle
By John Ciardi

The Piper
By Joseph Campbell

The Planet Krypton
By Lynn Emanuel

The Poet as Setting
By Douglas Kearney

from The Poet Writes The Poem That Will Certainly Make Him Famous
By Douglas Kearney

The Political Meeting
By A. M. Klein

The Portent
By Herman Melville

The Poster Girl’s Defence
By Carolyn Wells

The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing
By William Wordsworth

The Powwow at the End of the World
By Sherman Alexie

The Price is Right: A Torture Wheel of Fortune
By Edward Dorn

The Princess: Thy Voice is Heard
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Prisoner
By R. S. Thomas

The Prisoner of Chillon
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Prisoner. A Fragment
By Emily Jane Brontë

The Prospector
By Robert W. Service

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell

The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Rain
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Rainbow
By David Baker

The Rebel
By Hilaire Belloc

The Red Cadillac
By Reginald O'Hare Gibson

The Redeemer
By Siegfried Sassoon

The Reeve's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Return
By Frank Bidart

The Reverie of Poor Susan
By William Wordsworth

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Road
By Herbert Morris

The Room
By Conrad Aiken

The Ruined Maid
By Thomas Hardy

The Runners
By Irving Feldman

The Schooner Flight
By Derek Walcott

The Search Party
By William Matthews

The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats

The Second Slaughter
By Lucia Perillo

The Secular Masque
By John Dryden

The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day
By Bob Hicok

The Shampoo (From The Nightingales)
By David Wojahn

The Shipman's Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Shopping-Bag Lady
By Linda Gregg

The Shore of Life
By Robert Fitzgerald

The Sign in My Father’s Hands
By Martín Espada

The Sixth Book Of Homer's Iliads
By George Chapman

The Skeleton in Armor
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Slave Auction
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Slave Mother
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Small Vases from Hebron
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The So-called Singer of Nab
By Sarah Lindsay

The Soldier and the Snow
By Miguel Hernández

The Soldiers in the Garden
By Martín Espada

The Song of the Banjo
By Rudyard Kipling

The Song of the Bow
By Arthur Conan Doyle

The Song of the Smoke
By W. E. B. Du Bois

The Soul of Spain With McAlmon and Bird the Publishers
By Ernest M. Hemingway

The South
By Emma Lazarus

The Speakers
By Weldon Kees

The Spell of the Yukon
By Robert W. Service

The Spool
By Ben Belitt

The Squaw Trade
By G. E. Murray

The Star-splitter
By Robert Frost

The Statesmen
By Ambrose Bierce

The Steel Glass
By George Gascoigne

The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten
By Edgar Bowers

The Stone Axe
By Robinson Jeffers

The Story of Light
By Peggy Shumaker

The Strayed Reveller
By Matthew Arnold

The Subculture of the Wrongfully Accused
By Thylias Moss

The Suburban Classes
By Stevie Smith

The Summoner's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Swamp Angel
By Herman Melville

The Sweater of Vladimir Ussachevsky
By John Haines

The Tartar Swept
By August Kleinzahler

from The Task, Book I: The Sofa
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book II: The Time-Piece
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book IV: The Winter Evening
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book V: The Winter Morning Walk
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper

The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books
By Alice Notley

The Things in Black Men’s Closets
By E. Ethelbert Miller

The Thorn
By William Wordsworth

The Topography of History
By Thomas McGrath

The Town Dump
By Howard Nemerov

The Tragedy of Hats
By Clarinda Harriss

the trash men
By Charles Bukowski

The Trickle-Down Theory of Happiness
By Philip Appleman

from The Triumph of Love
By Geoffrey Hill

The Tropics in New York
By Claude McKay

The Troubles That Women Start Are Men
By Rodney Jones

The True Born Englishman
By Daniel Defoe

The True-Blue American
By Delmore Schwartz

The Truth about Small Towns
By David Baker

The Twins
By Robert W. Service

The Two Boys
By Mary Lamb

The Undeniable Pressure of Existence
By Patricia Fargnoli

The Uniform
By Marvin Bell

The Unknown Dead
By Henry Timrod

The Unruly Child
By Bob Perelman

The Use of Poetry
By Michael Ryan

from The Vanity of Human Wishes
By Samuel Johnson

The Venus Hottentot
By Elizabeth Alexander

The Very Rich Hours
By James McMichael

The View from Here
By W. S. Di Piero

The Village: Book I
By George Crabbe

The Voyage Home
By Philip Appleman

The War Horse
By Eavan Boland

The War in the Air
By Howard Nemerov

The Washingtonian
By May Miller

The Waste Carpet
By William Matthews

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Weary Blues
By Langston Hughes

The Western Emigrant
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

The White City
By Claude McKay

The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Window, at the Moment of Flame
By Alicia Ostriker

The Windy City [sections 1 and 6]
By Carl Sandburg

The Witnesses
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Woman Hanging From The Thirteenth Floor Window
By Joy Harjo

The Woman Who Loved Worms
By Colette Inez

from The Woman’s Labor. An Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck
By Mary Collier

The Workforce
By James Tate

The World Is Too Much With Us
By William Wordsworth

The Wreck of the Thresher
By William Meredith

Theme for English B
By Langston Hughes

There Are Black
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

There Came a Soul
By Rita Dove

These Lacustrine Cities
By John Ashbery

They Clapped
By Nikki Giovanni

They Feed They Lion
By Philip Levine

They Will Say
By Carl Sandburg

Things
By Louis Simpson

Things of the Past
By Theodore Weiss

Things We Dreamt We Died For
By Marvin Bell

Thinking About the Enemy
By J. P. White

This
By Ralph Angel

This Is It
By Gerald Stern

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thomas Jefferson
By Lorine Niedecker

Those Being Eaten by America
By Robert Bly

Though some Saith that Youth Ruleth me
By Henry VIII, king of England

Thoughtless Cruelty
By Charles Lamb

Three Haiku, Two Tanka
By Philip Appleman

Three Italian Pictures
By Mina Loy

Three Trees
By Mary Jo Bang

Through these Pale Cold Days
By Isaac Rosenberg

Time Passes
By Cesare Pavese

Time Problem
By Brenda Hillman

To a Poor Old Woman
By William Carlos Williams

To Althea, from Prison
By Richard Lovelace

To E. T.
By Robert Frost

To Elsie
By William Carlos Williams

To James Fenton
By John Fuller

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
By Richard Lovelace

To Madame Curie
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

To Matthew Dodsworth, Esq., On a Noble Captain Declaring that His Finger Was Broken by a Gate
By Anna Dodsworth

To My Brother
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton
By John Dryden

To My Old City
By W. S. Di Piero

To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
By John Keats

To Our Land
By Mahmoud Darwish

To the Bartholdi Statue
By Ambrose Bierce

To the Executive Director of the Actual:
By Bruce Smith

To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year
By Philip Appleman

To The Indifferent Women
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

To the King on his Navy
By Edmund Waller

To the Ladies
By Lady Mary Chudleigh

To the Negro Farmers of the United States
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

To the States,
By Walt Whitman

To The Stone-Cutters
By Robinson Jeffers

To the Virginian Voyage
By Michael Drayton

To the voice of the retired warden of Huntsville Prison (Texas death chamber)
By Averill Curdy

To the Western World
By Louis Simpson

To the Young Wife
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

To Virgil, Written at the Request of the Manuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of Virgil's Death
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To Whistler, American
By Ezra Pound

To Wordsworth
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tomahawk
By Mark Rudman

Tomorrow
By Bernadette Mayer

Tone Deficit
By Kevin McFadden

Torcello
By Catherine Sasanov

Tourist
By Paul Engle

Toussaint L’Ouverture
By Henrietta Cordelia Ray

Town Eclogues: Monday; Roxana or the Drawing-Room
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Eclogues: Tuesday; St. James's Coffee-House
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Hall, Fifteenth Arrondissement
By Pierre Martory

Toys in a Field
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Tracings
By Michael Anania

Train Above Pedestrians
By Reginald Gibbons

Triolets in the Argolid
By Rachel Hadas

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book II
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Troop Train
By Karl Shapiro

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Truth-Taking Stare
By David Wojahn

Turkish Bath
By Sidney Wade

Twang Chic: Sam Buckhannon Explores the Latest Fashion
By R. T. Smith

Two Aunts
By Thomas James

Two Guitars
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Two Poems from “The Day”
By Kenneth Goldsmith

Two Quits and a Drum, and Elegy for Drinkers
By Alan Dugan

Two Tales of Clumsy
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Typhoid Mary
By Kevin Simmonds

Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Un citadin / A City Dweller
By Jacques Réda

Unholy Women
By Chris Abani

Union Square
By Sara Teasdale

Unreliable Narration
By Sarah Lindsay

Untitled [1. Now you are all here you might as well know ...]
By Thomas James Merton

Up at a Villa—Down in the City
By Robert Browning

Up Rising (Passages 25)
By Robert Duncan

Urban Renewal
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Urban Renewal XVIII.
By Major Jackson

Us and Them
By Nomi Stone

V-J Day
By John Ciardi

Vacant Lot
By Dudley Randall

Valentine’s Day Boxing at the Madison County Jail
By Kevin Stein

Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond
By Galway Kinnell

Venetian Coda
By John Koethe

Verities
By Kim Addonizio

Victims of the Latest Dance Craze
By Cornelius Eady

Victory
By Fanny Howe

Video Cuisine
By Maxine W. Kumin

Vietnam
By Michael Collier

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night
By Walt Whitman

Villanelle of Change
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Villon
By Basil Bunting

Visions
By William E. Stafford

Visiting a dead man on a summer day
By Marge Piercy

VooDoo/Love Magic
By Angela Jackson

Wade Seego Believes Soylent Green Is People
By R. T. Smith

Waiter in a California Vietnamese Restaurant
By Clarence Major

Waiting for the Barbarians
By C. P. Cavafy

Walking Down Park
By Nikki Giovanni

Walking West
By William E. Stafford

Wall and Pine: The Rain
By Anne Winters

Walt, the Wounded
By W. S. Di Piero

War Ballad
By Stanley Moss

War Bird: A Journal
By David Gewanter

from War is Kind ["Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind"]
By Stephen Crane

War Voyeurs
By Juan Felipe Herrera

War Widow
By Chris Abani

Warning from a Visitor in the Control Tower
By Calvin Thomas

Washing Day
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Watching Television
By Robert Bly

Watching the Complex Train-Track Changes
By Bernadette Mayer

Water
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke

We Eat Out Together
By Bernadette Mayer

We Never Know
By Yusef Komunyakaa

We Real Cool
By Gwendolyn Brooks

We Wear the Mask
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

We were Two Rooms of One Timber, But I Left that Place Alone
By Camille T. Dungy

Webs and Weeds
By Colleen J. McElroy

Wedding Dress
By Michael Waters

What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy

What are the Days?
By Colette Inez

What Grieving Was
By Lynn Emanuel

What He Thought
By Heather McHugh

What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

What Kind of Times Are These
By Adrienne Rich

What loves, takes away
By Eleanor Wilner

What the Birds Said
By John Greenleaf Whittier

What the End Is For
By Jorie Graham

What the Stars Meant
By John Koethe

What We Need
By Jo McDougall

What Work Is
By Philip Levine

When de Co'n Pone's Hot
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

When Life
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
By Walt Whitman

When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
By Oliver Goldsmith

When the World Ended as We Knew It
By Joy Harjo

Where Are The Stars Pristine
By Alice Fulton

Which Has More Patience -- Man or Woman?
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

Who Am I, Without Exile?
By Mahmoud Darwish

who knows if the moon's
By E. E. Cummings

Who Said It Was Simple
By Audre Lorde

Who Understands Me but Me
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket
By Vachel Lindsay

Why We Are Truly a Nation
By William Matthews

Wi’-gi-e
By Elise Paschen

Windy City
By Stuart Dybek

Wingfoot Lake
By Rita Dove

Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Winter
By Anne Hunter

Winter Dawn
By Kenneth Slessor

Wish for an Overcoat
By Alfred Islay Walden

wishes for sons
By Lucille Clifton

Witch Doctor
By Robert E. Hayden

Woman Unborn
By Anna Swir

Woman’s Rights
By Rebekah Gumpert Hyneman

Women
By Louise Bogan

Women
By May Swenson

won't you celebrate with me
By Lucille Clifton

Woods Burial
By John Peck

Woodstock
By Peter Balakian

Work Shy
By Alex Phillips

Worldly Place
By Matthew Arnold

Worm Either Way
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Worth
By Marilyn Nelson

Written in London. September, 1802
By William Wordsworth

Written on a Wall at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I

Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I

X Minus X
By Kenneth Fearing

Yellow Dress
By Amy Beeder

You and Me and Veronica Lake
By Colleen J. McElroy

You Ask Me, Why, Tho' Ill at Ease
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

You Can’t Warm Your Hands in Front of a Book but You Can Warm Your Hopes There
By Fanny Howe

You Got a Song, Man
By Martín Espada

You Love, You Wonder
By Brenda Shaughnessy

You Say, Columbus with his Argosies
By Trumbull Stickney

You Who Wronged
By Czeslaw Milosz

Young Afrikans
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Young Harlan
By Richard Emil Braun

Your Hay it is Mow'd, and Your Corn is Reaped
By John Dryden

[His father carved umbrella handles...]
By Charles Reznikoff

[if your complexion is a mess]
By Harryette Mullen

[Posterity, this me is Now—]
By Dan Beachy-Quick

[Response to the Loyalty Oath]
By Jack Spicer

[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up
By Bernadette Mayer

[The bird’s-eye view]
By Ben Lerner

[The predictability of these rooms]
By Ben Lerner

[The wild and wavy event]
By Lorine Niedecker